Whittaker Chambers Quotes

Die goldene Medina. The accent was not on the golden (except in the sense of some mysterious Light), but on the Medina - that is, the city of hope, the city of deliverance.

Whittaker Chambers

A nation's life is about as long as its reverential memory.

Whittaker Chambers

In the 20th Century, treason became a vocation whose modern form was specifically the treason of ideas.

Whittaker Chambers

All children are afraid of the night; when they grow up, they are still afraid, but more afraid of admitting it.

Whittaker Chambers

Tragedy occurs when a human soul awakes and seeks, in suffering and pain, to free itself from crime, violence, infamy, even at the cost of life. The struggle is the tragedy - not defeat or death. That is why the spectacle of tragedy has always filled men, not with despair, but with a sense of hope and exaltation.